“We just looked back to all the goals that we had and all the work that we put into the season and just reminded them that this was what we’d worked for this whole season,” Ralston Valley coach Jeremy Vann said this morning. “All the times going out to Red Rocks and all the practices and all of that stuff, it all would’ve been for naught if we couldn’t get a goal there.”

Neil Devlin, originally from the Philadelphia area, has covered high school sports in Colorado for more than 30 years, writing about the people, athletes and events that encompass the Rocky Mountain prep sports world.